State officials had estimated 300,000 newly eligible Virginians would sign up for Medicaid coverage in the first 18 months of expansion, which takes effect on Jan. 1, but that estimate has increased based on the current pace of enrollment. As of Thursday morning, 140,643 adults now eligible for coverage under the expansion have enrolled in […]
By Eric Whitney, Montana Public Radio A ballot initiative that would have continued funding Montana’s Medicaid expansion beyond June 2019 has failed. But advocates say they’ll continue to push for money to keep the expansion going after that financial sunset. “We now turn our attention to the legislature to maintain Montana’s bipartisan Medicaid expansion and […]
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Medicaid — which has been a political football between Washington and state capitols during the past decade — scored big in Tuesday’s election. Following the vote, nearly 500,000 uninsured adults in five states are poised to gain Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, advocates estimate. Three deep-red states […]
Nebraska joined the likes of several other states who approved Medicaid expansion Tuesday, with more than 53 percent of the vote in favor with 90 percent of precincts reporting. As many as 90,000 newly eligible residents will gain coverage and the uninsured rate could fall from to 9.6% from 12.4% next year, according to an independent […]
By Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News Voters this year have told pollsters in no uncertain terms that health care is important to them. In particular, maintaining insurance protections for preexisting conditions is the top issue to many. But the results of the midterm elections are likely to have a major impact on a broad array […]
By Eric Whitney, Montana Public Radio Montana legislators expanded Medicaid by a very close vote in 2015. They passed the measure with an expiration date: It would sunset in 2019, and all who went onto the rolls would lose coverage unless lawmakers voted to reapprove it. Fearing legislators might not renew funding for Medicaid’s expanded […]
After months of back-and-forth legal battles, Gov. Paul LePage submitted a plan Tuesday to the federal government for voter-approved Medicaid expansion, but he “strongly” encouraged officials to reject it. In a letter to sent Friday to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Seema Verma, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, LePage […]
A high court ruled Thursday that Gov. Paul LePage must file a Maine Medicaid expansion plan, shutting down a “piecemeal appeal” submitted by LePage in late June. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruling issued Thursday did not address questions in the original lawsuit about funding for Maine Medicaid expansion efforts. It instead focused on the […]
As we move closer and closer to November midterm elections in the U.S., healthcare access and quality issues have become a heated political battleground for legislators and citizens across the political spectrum. Medicaid expansion, a tentpole policy part of the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, is one of the key divisive topics in this realm. It’s […]
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